1st Edition
Politicizing Asian American Literature Towards a Critical Multiculturalism
Preface
Introduction – "Who Consumes Multiculturalism?"
Part I – Politically Acquiescent Asian American Multiculturalism
Chapter 1 – Cultural Economies of Model Minority CreationChapter 2 – Measuring Silences in Popular Asian American Literature:
Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter, Amy Tan’s The Joy
Luck Club, and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
Part II – Politically Conscious Asian American Multiculturalism
Chapter 3 – Beyond Ethnicity: The Critical Movement in Asian American
Literature – Carlos Bulosan’s America Is In the Heart and Fae
Myenne Ng’ Bone.
Chapter 4 – Remapping Asian American Multiculturalism: Karen Tei
Yamashita’s Critical Vision of Exploitative U.S. Culture and Economy
Chapter 5 –Counteracting the Dominant Encoding of "America": Ruth
Ozeki’s My Year of Meats
Chapter 6 (Possible addition) – Challenging the Straddling Position of
Middlemen Minority: Younghill Kang’s East Goes West and Changrae Lee’s Native Speaker
Conclusion –Multiculturalism, or an Ideology of U.S. Capitalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Youngsuk Chae is assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. Her research interests include critical race studies, theorizing globalization, Asian Diaspora, and critique of hegemonic discourse.
